1. Suppose a box contains black and white balls of same size.

When two balls are drawn at random, the

probability of two balls being of black color is ½. What is least possible value of total balls if the no.
of white balls is even?
a. 4 b. 21 c. 7 d. 14
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2. What is the remainder when 2 is divided by 31?
a. 2 b. 4 c. 8 d. 1
3. How many integers are proper factors of the number 270?
a. 15 b. 16 c. 12 e. 27
4. Suppose you have an unfair 10 faced dice with weight of each face is equal to the number on the
face. For example: the face with number 4 has the weight 4. Find the probability that when a die is
rolled twice, we get 5 on each roll.
a. 1/36 b. 1/100 c. 1/16 d. 1/121
5. There are 5 people sitting on 5 chairs arranged in a straight line, all facing north. Everyone gets up
and can do only one of the following things at a time:
• Sit back again in their original chair,
• Turn their chair 180◦ to face south and then sit on it,
• Sit on the chair next to their original chair.
How many sitting arrangements are possible?
a. 35 b. 56 c. 70 d. 89
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6. Let a, b, c be positive integers such that: 4.16 = 𝑎 + 1 . Find the sum of a, b, and c.
𝑏+𝑐
a. 14 b. 21 c. 16 d. 8
7. Given that a cubic monic polynomial with integer coefficients satisfies P(0)=0, P(1)=1 and P(2)=2.
Then, what is the value of P (3)?
a. 0 b. 3 c. -3 d. 9
8. Two people agree to meet on January 9, 2024 between 6pm to 7pm with the understanding that each
will wait no longer than 20 minutes for the other. What is the probability that they will meet?
5 7 2 4
𝑎. 9 b. 9 c. 9 d. 9
9. Find the diameter of the incircle for a triangle whose side lengths are 8, 15, and 17.
a. 6 b. 3 c. 9.6 d. 18
10. Let d(n) denote the number of divisors of n. What is the sum of the digits of the smallest integer k
for which d(d(d(d(k)))) = 3?
a. 8 b. 9 c. 10 d. 11
11. The value of 1n + 2n + 3n + 4n + 5n has how many possible remainders upon division of 12?
a. 4 b. 3 c. 6 d. 12
12. For how many positive integers n is the value of ((n!)!)! not a multiple of 2024?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
13. The base 10 number 123456. . . 99100 is converted to base 100. How many digits does the resulting
number have?
a. 90 b. 92 c. 96 d. 100
14. For a certain quadratic P (x) with leading coefficient −1, we have that x = 1 is a root and x = −1
achieves the maximum possible value of P (x). Find P (0).
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
15. Let x be the smallest positive integer with 2024 digits and 2x ends with the digit 6. Find the
remainder when x is divided by 4.
a. 0 b. 1 c. 2 d. 3
16. Find the minimum value of s for which x2− sx = s and x2 + sx = s both have real solutions.
a. -4 b. -2 c. 0 d. 2
17. The set {3, 5, 7, . . ., 99} consists of all the odd integers between 3 and 99 inclusive. Bata beings to
remove numbers from the set in the following method: Bata removes all the multiples of 2, then
removes all the multiples of 3, then all the multiples of 4, and so on, until exactly one number
remains. What is the number remaining in the set when the process finishes?
a. 53 b. 93 c. 73 d. 97
18. Basu starts at the origin of the coordinate plane. Each second, he moves either north, south, east, or
west one unit. The minimum number of moves he needs to take to get to a certain lattice point is
exactly 2024. Find the number of possible such lattice points.
a. 8096 b. 6072 c. 4048 d. 2024
19. Aayam has a positive integer. He notes that when the cube of this positive integer is divided by the
value obtained by adding 1 to the same integer, it yields a remainder of 2024. Find Aayam’s positive
integer.
a. 4050 b. 2024 c. 4048 d. 2025
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20. The value 𝑎 + √𝑏 is a root of 𝑥 − 2𝑎𝑥 + 2𝑏 + 1 for some positive integers a and b where b is
squarefree. Find the minimum possible value of a + b.
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
21. Find the digit sum of the sum of the distinct prime factors of 99 2 + 16 · 99 + 63.
a. 9 b. 11 c. 13 d. 15
22. The inradius of a triangle is 2 and its circumradius is 3. If the triangle has side lengths a, b, c, find
𝑎𝑏𝑐
the value of 𝑎+𝑏+𝑐 .
a. 4 b. 6 c. 9 d. 12
23. An isosceles triangle with base length 12 and leg length s has circumcenter O and centroid P. If OP
= 2, then find the sum of the digits of the sum of all possible values of s2 .
a. 7 b. 9 c. 11 d. 13
24. Let m be the number of positive integer factors of 876876, and let n be the number of positive
integer factors of 678678. What is m — n?
a. 16 b. 24 c. 32 d. 48
25. Seven points are equally distributed on a circle. How many non-congruent quadrilaterals can be
drawn with vertices chosen from among the seven points?
a. 4 b. 35 c. 7 d. 14
26. How many permutations of the first 9 positive integers satisfy both properties?
• The leftmost even number is 6.
• The rightmost odd number is 9.
a. 5040 b. 40320 c. 18144 d. 720
27. Suppose we have a set S, which contains positive integer element in the form 68x+24y for all x,y in
integers. What is the least possible value the set can have?
a. 4 b. 17 c. 20 d. 8
28. Aayush goes out on a shopping spree for caps and finds out that discount can be redeemed only on
the purchase of bundles of 7 or 17. Now, suppose he needs to assess the number of caps such that no
matter what he can always redeem the discounts, what is the least number of caps he should plan to
buy so that no matter what, he can always get the discount?
a. 92 b. 96 c. 95 d. 98
29. A number is palindromic if it is the same backwards as forward. Of the largest palindrome made
from the product of two two–digit numbers, which of the followings is the one?
a. 90 b. 91 c. 93 d. 92

30. At most how many acute angles that a convex hexagon can have?
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5
31. Which of the followings is the sum of all prime numbers between 1 and 100 that are
simultaneously 1 greater than a multiple of and less than a multiple of 5 ?
a. 137 b. 118 c. 158 d. 187
32. Let P(x) be a polynomial such that P(x) is divided by x-19, the remainder is 99; and when P(x) is
divided by (x-99), the remainder is 19. What is the remainder when P(x) is divided by
(𝑥 − 19)(𝑥 − 99) ?
a. x+80 b. -x+80 c. -x+118 d. x+118
33. If 𝑆𝑛 denotes the sum of first n terms of the arithmetic sequence and 𝑆1 : 𝑆4 = 1: 10, then which of
the followings is the ratio of the first term to the fourth term of the sequence?
a. 1: 2 b. 1:3 c. 1: 4 d. 1: 8
34. Consider the set 𝑆 = 1, 2, 3, … … , 1000 . How many arithmetic progressions can be made from
{ }
the elements of S that starts with 1 and ends with 1000 and have at least 3 elements?
a. 6 b. 7 c. 8 d. 9
35. Suppose that the central angle of a circle is divided into 12 sectors; and all these central angles form
an arithmetic sequence with integer values. What is the degree measure of the smallest possible
central angle?
a. 8 b. 9 c. 10 d. 11
36. If 𝑓 (𝑥 − 2) = 4𝑥 − 11, which of the followings is the value of 𝑓 −1 (𝑥 + 2)?
𝑥+5 𝑥−3 𝑥+3 𝑥−5
a. 4 b. 4 c. 4 d. 4
37. Which of the followings is the domain of the function 𝑓(𝑥) = √10 + 3𝑥 − 𝑥 2 ?
𝑎. 2 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 5 b.−2 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 5 c. −5 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ 2 d. −5 ≤ 𝑥 ≤ −2
38. Ten straight lines, no two of which are parallel and no three of which pass through any common
point, are drawn on a plane. The total number of regions (including finite and infinite) into which
the plane would be divided by the lines is ….
a. 240 b. 45 c. 56 d. 90
39. In a certain year, the month August had only 4 Mondays and 4 Fridays. Which day of the week was
the 31st of August of that year?
a. Sunday b. Monday c. Wednesday d. Thursday
40. How many three–digit numbers which are multiples of 7 end with 4?
a. 10 b. 11 c. 12 d. 13
41. How many ordered sets of non-negative integers (𝑤, 𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) are there such that 𝑤 + 𝑥 + 𝑦 + 𝑧 =
20?
a. 1759 b. 1771 c. 4845 d. 969
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42. Let a and b be real numbers such that 𝑎 > 𝑏, 5𝑎 + 5𝑏 = 75 and 5−𝑎 + 5−𝑏 = 12. Find the value of
5𝑎−𝑏 .
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a. 4 b. 1 c. 4 d. 2
43. Adarsha writes two numbers both greater than 1 in a board and multiplies those numbers and sums
the product with these numbers and gets 186. Now, Rasbin must guess the sum of the two numbers,
what would be the nearest correct guess?
a. 23 b. 28 c. 19 d. 34
44. Find the minimum value of
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27𝑎6 + 2
𝑎 − 𝑏 − 𝑐 2 + 2𝑏𝑐
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a. 3 b. 8 c. 4 d. 9
45. In the adjoining diagram, ABC is an inscribed triangle (not to scale). If AB=
14cm, BC = 13cm and AC = 15cm, which of the followings is the radius of the
circle?
a. 9.125cm b. 10.125cm c. 8.125cm d. 7.125cm
46. Find the value of x in the diagram.

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a. √6 b. 4 c. √ d. 3
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47. Externally tangent circles with centers P and Q have their radii 18 and 8
respectively as shown. If AB is the common tangent to both circles, what
is the length of AB?
a. 23 b. 24 c. 25 d. 26
48. In the figure alongside, square ABCD inscribes a circle, and the circle
inscribes another square GHIJ. What is the ratio of the perimeters of the
outer square to the inner square?
a. 2:1 b. 3:1 c. √2: 1 d. √3: 1

49. Suppose we have two finite sets A and B with |A| = m and |B|=n, how
many one-to-one functions are there from A to B such that m>n?
𝑛!
a. m! b.(𝑛−𝑚)! c. nm d. None of the options
50. Let f and g be functions such that for all real numbers x and y,
𝑔(𝑓(𝑥 + 𝑦)) = 𝑓(𝑥) + (𝑥 + 𝑦)𝑔(𝑦)
Find the value of 𝑔(0) + 𝑔(1)+. . . 𝑔(2024).
2024(2024−1) 2024(2024+1)
a. 0 b. c. d. 2025
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